Eagles: golden eagles, harpy eagles, Steller's sea eagles and eagle eyes, sentence 3
It spots a hare far below, folds its wings and drops like a stone at well over 200 kilometres an hour, then swings its talons forward at the last moment.
Who acts: mountain · What happens: spot, fold, drop, swing · To what, where: hare, wings, 200 kilometres, talons
This is a sentence of the lesson «Eagles: golden eagles, harpy eagles, Steller's sea eagles and eagle eyes» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mountain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spots | nsubj |
| 2 | spots | spot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hare | det |
| 4 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spots | obj |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 folds | advmod |
| 6 | below | below | ADV | _ | 5 far | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 folds | punct |
| 8 | folds | fold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 spots | conj |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wings | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 folds | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 drops | cc |
| 12 | drops | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 folds | conj |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 stone | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 stone | det |
| 15 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drops | obl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 kilometres | case |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 kilometres | advmod |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 kilometres | case |
| 19 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 kilometres | nummod |
| 20 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 drops | obl |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 hour | det |
| 22 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kilometres | nmod:unmarked |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 swings | punct |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 swings | advmod |
| 25 | swings | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 spots | conj |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 talons | nmod:poss |
| 27 | talons | talon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 swings | obj |
| 28 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 25 swings | advmod |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 moment | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 moment | det |
| 31 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 moment | amod |
| 32 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 swings | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spots | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spot | present | mountain | a hare | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hare=Destination | ||||
| 2 | fold | present | mountain not said here | mountain's wings | far property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | |||
| 3 | drop | present | mountain not said here | 200 kilometres a hour | like a stone | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at kilometre=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | swing | present | mountain not said here | mountain's talons | then; moment | forward property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent talon=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:323-eagles-golden-eagles-harpy-eagles-stellers-sea-eagles-and-eagle-eyes.lesson:3.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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